Education for a healthy democracy
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What is democracy? What does a healthy democracy look and feel like? And what is the role of education in making it possible?
Jeremy Gilbert, professor of cultural and political theory at the University of East London, reflects on the role that education should play in a democratic society.
There will be a wider collection of essays on education from IPPR available from early 2018.
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